That "exercize" vs "exercise" issue has bugged me since we published Prometheus Rising, which Bob filled with "Exercizes." In Cosmic Trigger and Quantum Psychology, he spells it "exercises," so it was rather vexing to have the word used extensively in PR with the "z." (BTW, in Email to the Universe, he uses both spellings, but that's essays from different time periods, so . . .)

It's considered American English in some circles, so in the end we decided to leave it the way New Falcon originally had it, with the "z."

I think Bob would have "fixed" the "z" over the 24 printings of PR if he wanted to. New Falcon was not great in fixing typos, but because PR only uses the "z" variation, I have to think it was deliberate. Why? Good question.

Here's an informative "British vs American English" page from a German website:

https://www.learnenglish.de/mistakes/isevsize.html

Reference pages like this really tempted us to "correct" Bob's spelling, but in the end we decided to leave it.

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